Experimental Toxicology

1. Introduction to experimental toxicology /​ D.M. Conning2. Effects of physical form, route, and species /​ A.B. Wilson3. Influence of animal species, strain, age, hormonal, and nutritional status /​ F.J.C. […]

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Alternatives To Pain In Experiments On Animals

CONTENTS AcknowledgementsI IntroductionII Aspects of PainIII Behavior ExperimentsIV CancerV ImmunologyVI Inhalation of Toxic SubstancesVII The Plight of the Nonhuman PrimateVIII RadiationIX Surgical ExperimentsX Tetratogen TestingXI Testing Biological ProductsXII Toxicity Test Procedures […]

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Why Animal Studies Are Still Being Used In Drug Development

1.   IntroductIon       9  1.1    Background       9  1.2    objectives and research question    15  1.3    thesis outline      162.   theoretIcal background      17  2.1    insights from innovation theory     17  2.2    Lock-in, institutional theory and […]

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Alternatives to Animal Testing

Animal experimentation has long been a controversial issue with impassioned arguments on both sides of the debate. Increasingly it has become more expedient and feasible to develop new methods that […]

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Ethics, Humans and Other Aniamls

This introductory textbook is ideally suited to newcomers to philosophy and ethical problems.Rosalind Hursthouse carefully introduces the three standard approaches in current ethical theory: utilitarianism, rights, and virtue ethics. She […]

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Animal Models of Human Emotion and Cognition

AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIntroduction—Marc Haug and Richard E. WhalenI. Key ConsiderationsOn the Nature of Animal Models of Human Behavioral Dysfunction—J. Bruce OvermierJustifying the Research Agenda—Lewis PetrinovichOn the Affective Nature of Human […]

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